When new leadership takes control in the 110th Congress, the public may finally gain routine online access to finished products of the Congressional Research Service. The prospects for adopting this…
The proliferation of new restrictions on the disclosure of information that is designated “sensitive but unclassified” (SBU) has been the subject of much churning within the national security policy apparatus…
A new assessment of the “state secrets privilege” disputes the claim presented in several other recent critiques that government reliance on the privilege to curtail or terminate sensitive litigation has…
The U.S. Supreme Court should reject the idea of a secret law or directive that purports to regulate public behavior yet cannot be disclosed, several public interest groups argued yesterday….
Openness in government is a prerequisite to democratic self-rule and is the best available antidote to official corruption. Yet greater transparency, particularly on the international level, “is not an unmitigated…